Thesaurus results for BLUEPRINTS

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noun

plural of blueprint

as in plans

a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective an ambitious young man with a remarkably detailed blueprint for becoming a millionaire by the age of 25

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verb

present tense third-person singular of blueprint

as in designs

to work out the details of (something) in advance blueprinted the schedule of events for the festival right down to the last detail

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Recent Examples of blueprints

Noun

The items and blueprints for the items can be found in shops, claw machines, the flower basket crafting mission, the box of fortune, and the orb roll challenge. —

Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026 The team compared the vessel’s size, along with the position of its masts and cargo holds, against blueprints of the Hōfuku Maru, built in 1919. —

Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 18 June 2026 All were constructed between the 1920s and 1950s out of materials like limestone and fieldstone sourced from the local Northern Michigan area, without the use of blueprints. —

Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026 The blueprints were drawn up by Uruguayan architect Álvaro Pérez Azar, who also sourced and restored local vintage pieces of furniture. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2026 Yet, the slender fangjaw proves that the creatures that look like monsters might actually hold the blueprints for our future. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026 State media also reported that blueprints provided by the mine did not match the site’s actual layout, complicating rescue operations, the outlet added. —

Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 25 May 2026 China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported that blueprints provided by the Liushenyu coal mine did not match the actual layout, which hampered rescue efforts. —

ABC News, 23 May 2026 The state broadcaster also reported that blueprints provided by the coal mine did not match the actual layout, hampering rescue efforts. —

Arkansas Online, 23 May 2026

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Recreating Rosebank’s Unique Facility IMD worked with Forsyth’s to create new stills, using archival still blueprints to build exact replicas of the original design. —

Chris Perugini, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Next year, these plans for retirees will increase on average by less than 1%.

— William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 18 June 2026
Each federal land management agency has its own regulations with criteria for managing off-road vehicle use — for instance, the BLM uses travel management plans to determine where vehicles are allowed on specific pieces of land.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026